Connecting the dots of life and business

I agreed to do two things last week that weren’t in my typical week’s schedule. At the Idea Festival, I volunteered to be on stage for a demonstration with Google’s Craig Nevill-Manning (that’s me on the far right) and I “volunteered” to attend an abs class at the gym with my girlfriend. During the abs [...]

Two of my new friends from my Bay Area Visit are hosting Facebook conferences. I’m getting out of a previous event in hopes I can attend. Noah Kagan is hosting Community Next: Platform and Dave McClure is hosting Graphing Social Patterns two loaded events dedicated to the Facebook plaform. Both conferences are in early October [...]

I’ve blogged quite a bit about my bay area visit and there are still 15 more videos to post (I swear they’ll get up). If you’ve watched my videos, you’ll obviously see I met some really cool people. Unfortunately Dave McClure was an awesome guy to chat with, but we met during Lunch 2.0 and [...]

The popular Idea Festival brings a global audience to my good ol’ Louisville, Kentucky. While its name says festival, it collects more creative, smart folks in an area like a think tank. If you don’t much about the event, check out the agenda. The speaker list is impressive… Steve Wozniak, Tiffany Shlain, Ray Bradbury, Laurence [...]

Some people work at Wendy’s in college and get their first job as a desk clerk, but Noah Kagan is very different. He’s worked at Intel, Facebook, Microsoft (intern) and now is at the startup, Mint.com. If all that wasn’t enough, he’s an uber networker, successful blogger at OkDork.com and organizer of the valley conference, [...]

Two nights ago I attended the Louisville Geek Dinner. The valley has these events each week, but here in the bluegrass… not so much. Luckily, Ben did a great job spreading the word and the turnout was strong. Rob and I talk a lot about who might be doing cool stuff locally, so it was [...]